Free Market Economy – A Week In Review
Or something.N ow thoroughly bored with my chart feature which was going nowhere and bored me, I’ve decided to try something a bit different which will more than likely go nowhere in a similar manner and but hopefully be less boring. So in the spirit of the Ramones; hey ho let’s go.
Saturday:
Didn’t work as I was in The Game City that is Nottingham, meeting loyOLL (good grief! – everyone) fans Down Home Kitty and Kevin. I have to say, for a place claiming to be Game City, I didn’t see many game shops. Cex and Game is obviously not enough. Even went to the market there and there’s no Nottingham Free Market Economists. Peculiar. Clearly they need to be stripped of the title so that Doncaster can quite rightly lay its claim to the title. Also somehow it seems I entered my own competition from an email address I registered specially. I don’t remember doing this but derekfme at googlemail does now exist.
Monday:
It snowed. Lots. I worked and took no money. Sold no games. Went and built snowmen instead.
Tuesday and Wednesday:
Business Partner works these days. He took hardly any money, sold very few games and bought hardly any in. I moaned a lot about the snow melting away already.
Thursday
Back to work and it’s snowing again. Typical. Still after a few hours of being frozen and selling nothing I give up on the stall and decide to go out building snowmen instead.
Today:
Bought in a Wii, A white DS with a Catz and er something else I’ve forgotten, Far Cry 2, Guitar Hero 2, Left4Dead all for the 360, Saints Row 2 PS3 and a PS2 original with about 8 games including UFC Throwdown and Red Dead Revolver. I sold Medal of Honour Rising Sun, Sonic Heroes PS2, Football Manager 2007 360. I’m now sold out of Football Manager 2007 despite having loads of them a week or two ago. I could swear they’ve all been bought by the same customer but I’m sure I must be going mad. All customers look the same to me anyway. I listed Saints Row 2 online with my stock now being saturated with it by having two of them. I’ve had one for sale at £20 on the stall for about a month but no takers. It’s already sold online at £18.50 + £1.99 postage. I got a spare Wiimote and Nunchuck with the Wii and the Wiimote has sold online at about £23 + £1.99 as well. Which gets back some of the huge amount of money I spent today. I’m dumping pretty much everything online lately. It’s the only place things are selling. Helps that I sell internationally, thus hugely increasing my customer base. IT’s not always easy to buy things in from people at profitable price to sell online with all the other shops in the area having much higher retail prices and buy in prices.
You know, my takings are so low that I didn’t have enough money to pay the stall rent for the first time ever. That wouldn’t be so bad if I could have got some money out of the bank but my account was hacked this week and some lovely people tried taking out £250 to Barclaycard followed by a couple of smaller transactions to Capital One. Thankfully my bank was on the ball and stopped the transactions and blocked my account. But I’ve got to wait 7-10 days for a new card.
I hear on the news just now that Blizzard are creating havoc across the country. Must be some new PR stunt for World of Warcraft. As if that horrible brown filled time sink needs any more players.
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